To ask what are your bank holiday plans?

Shopping for a new mattress, which has taken all weekend as dh wanted to be sure of his choice. He has a bad hip and shoulder with our very firm memory foam one and it’s got to go! He has now chosen, so will order it tomorrow. Lots of places with offers on so it’s a good weekend for that.
Also intending to measure up for some new curtains which need to be M2M. Dd helped choose the design, she has great taste! The old curtains are getting holes where they get pulled and were secondhand to us some 20 years ago, so they’ve done well.
Probably some cleaning as we have guests next week before the schools go back. It all sounds very dull but it’s been nice to just get things done and hang about together at home.

We're in a National Trust holiday cottage in the West Country, this is our fourth year here (but two non-cottage years too so we first came in 2019. We always drive home on the Tuesday so tomorrow we will start packing, visit a large house, have a pub meal and then finish packing.
Unfortunately DS has been very unwell over the summer (he has epilepsy and fits are more frequent now, especially at night, so is exhausted in the morning). He's 12 but we may still need to put him in the car in his PJs to get him out in time.

Not the last bank holiday in Scotland.

I'm in Scotland but still have the Bank Holiday. It's DS first day at a new school so doing school runs, trip to the gym and housework!

NHS so - working, like I have been the last two days!

Hoping for a lie in but I keep waking up annoyingly early atm

Hopefully it’ll be dry as I really need to do some basic garden tidying and wash ds’s new school uniform

Then out for lunch with the in laws.

I have booked the whole week off as annual
leave and don’t really have any plans which kind of feels like a waste but also very relaxing!

Coffee with a friend in the morning - then go and pick up elderly DM to take her to the coast for a late lunch and will probably do her food shopping at same time
Quiet evening in with DS and Dcat

To remember to not go into work and then continue with preparation with DC who is off to uni next month.

Probably just cleaning. DH is away Tuesday-Friday abroad for work so I am solo parenting. At least if it's half clean it'll be manageable until the kids go back the week after. I don't like busy places on a bank holiday so stay well away.

Walk on the beach with DDog.

Lying on sofa watching old movies.

Catch up with adult DC on phone.

Honiton Hill Rally tomorrow. Wife and mother of transport nerds..

Andnowshesatoddler guessing predictive text? “ Wail of a time”. Hopefully your DD won’t be wailing! It’s lovely when they find joy in simple things. DD15 used to be like that & now she seems to find the negative in everything 😢

Nothing. Going down to the coast at the end of the week as weather is better.

I’m on leave anyway this week so keep forgetting it’s a bank holiday. Just tidying and getting ready for our friends to arrive in the afternoon as they’re staying with us for the week.

Depends on the weather - the forecast is a bit mixed. If it’s nice, we might go for a picnic somewhere. We’ll avoid the beaches as they’re packed this time of year.

Hoping to go for a walk at the beach. Probably on my own. Most of my friends and family will be having family time. I do have a friend who is also single but she is on holiday.

Hopefully some outdoor type with my daughter doing not an awful lot but still having a wail of a time she finds happiness in the simplest of things now which is absolutely adorable.

I've been off this week so done all the fun things already - today we have been sorting the airing cupboard and wondering why we own so MANY towels and duvet covers and pillow cases. Some are stil in the packet!
Gave people a lift to church this morning then did a roast dinner. DD and I have been on with the airing cupboard but I've left her to it now; we have also played scrabble and been for a walk. Saw my friend briefly.
We had this afternoon earmarked for a bike ride but it's too windy and it keeps raining - we may get that done tomorrow morning and I'll go and visit my friend in the afternoon, I think.
House is a tip so need to do that too but a bit tired right now.

Working (swapped shifts) as would rather have a day off on a proper weekday when everything is open. Plus early morning commute better and cheaper.

A drive out to Whitby for fish and chips and a look around the shops.

We're having a picnic in the park tomorrow.

They interrupt my work. It's much less likely that clients will want appointments.

I'm going to have a massive lie in. That's my only plan.

Kind of spoilt here, it’s the start of the last week of the summer holiday which I’ve had off, but I’m currently looking after dog with broken leg and Dh with the identical injury! He’s also selling his car which was an absolute pigsty due to said dog and us not caring. I’ve spent hours vacuuming it, cleaning the leather, just needs the dash/doors wiping down (read: mud removing) and a wash, plus the alloys need a damned good scrub. Thrilling! I want to tackle the garden too, it’s crazily overgrown.

Oddly, we have a plumber coming tomorrow. He’s not English, I don’t know if he’s worried about Bank holidays, he’s coming to look at a couple of things.

@ilovesooty

why do you find them a nuisance out of interest?